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All about the Bard

A guide to modern Shakespeare performance on stage and screen: reviews, interviews, resources, and podcasts.

Thomas Ostermeier, Richard III, Lars Eidinger, Ostermeier Richard III

Alex Heeney / October 31, 2017

Review: In Thomas Ostermeier’s Richard III, the bunch-backed toad goes rogue

Thomas Ostermeier’s inventive Richard III starring Lars Eidinger made its US debut at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival this month. Even in German with English ad-libs, this is Shakespeare through and through.

Drunk Shakespeare

Noemi Berkowitz / June 28, 2017

Drunk Shakespeare is a riveting mix of Macbeth and tequila

Drunk Shakespeare is an abridged 90-minute whirlwind version of Macbeth full of jokes, drinks, and audience participation.

Twelfth Night, Public Theater Mobile Unit

Laura Anne Harris / June 14, 2017

Review: The Public Theater takes a joyous, bare bones Twelfth Night on the road

The Public Theater Mobile Unit brings Shakespeare’s farcical romance of mistaken identities, Twelfth Night, to prisons, community centers, and more in New York State.

Alex Heeney / June 5, 2017

Doubles and disguises reign in Desdemona Chiang’s excellent As You Like It at CalShakes

Desdemona Chiang’s As You Like It at CalShakes is an inventive modern dress production emphasizing doubles, disguises, and the performance of love.

Santa Cruz Shakespeare reviews, Hamlet

Alex Heeney / August 14, 2016

Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Santa Cruz Shakespeare

The 2016 season at Santa Cruz Shakespeare offers a terrific production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and a thought-provoking gender-swapped Hamlet.

Alex Heeney / June 24, 2016

Ralph Fiennes excavates Richard III’s malevolence at the Almeida

Ralph Fiennes’ titular bunch-backed toad is a man thoroughly damaged by years of abuse in Rupert Goold’s enthralling modern dress production. The production will be broadcast to cinemas around the world starting July 21.

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